The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-26 00:00:00

MARKET XONEY AND COMMEUCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK• The Money Market continues to be plentifully supplied with capital, and discounters are evincing More desire to obtain business at current rates. The quotations for firstgelass securities show a still further downward tendency, and transactions have been reported this morning at 81s per cent. for bills having only a week to run, while three months' Paper has been freely taken at Si per cent. The amount of gold taken to the Bank of England Yesterday afternoon represented £5,000. There was no material alteration in the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. The failure has been reported of Messrs De Wolff, Schuck, and Co., merchants, of Idol-lane. The liabilities are not supposed to be large. The bills of Mr T. W. Bradley, wine merchant, of Fenchurch•street, have also been returned. The debts are believed to be considerable. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Reuters telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were quoted 64f. 50c. Flat. The English Stock Market has been rather de pressed to-day, but prices have not receded any further. Last evening continental advices induced a reaction, and although nothing has since occurred to impart strength to quotations, values generally rule steady. Consols for money are 89} I-, and for the account 891 The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 871- ; March Exchequer Bills, lOs to 63 die, ; June ditto, 15s to 12s die.; and India 5 per Cents., 1041 105 k. At the general meeting to-day of the share holders of the Royal Mail Steampacket Company, it was proposed by the directors to pay a dividend of £3 per share out of the ordinary profits, and a bonus of £2 per share from the insurance fund, free of income tax. In the Foreign Market the principal feature has been a rise in Spanish Passive and Certificates; the former being 30t 31, and the latter 131 14. The other securities are generally flatter. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70k ; do. Consolides, 491 ; Mexican, 26k j ; do. New, 248 25} ; Greek, 214 22 ; and the Confederate Loan, 62 64. In the Railway Share Market the dealers and brokers have been principally occupied with the arrangements for the settlement, and prices in so anme instances have show n less firmness. Caledoni Groat Eastern, and Great Western have each de clined 55., and Midland 15s. ; while North Western have improved £l. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have continued inactive without material change in prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been in moderate request. Alliance, however, have declined to 30.31 ; European to 85 ; 9. Bank of Australasia have improved to 70} ; London and Westminster to 991; Oriental to 53i. Hudson Bay Company have receded to 151 ; International Financial to 5! 6 and London Financial to 20t. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols t 9 9 I Do Account, Nov. 12 soa a 3 per Cent. Reduced B7d 1 New 3 per Cent 874 I I 1 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894... Do /5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Aunuitios, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan. 1880 Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs 14a Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 March. Juno. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4& 31 per Cent. 10 6 16 12 Do £5OO ............. 6 17 Do £lOO and £2OO ........ Bank England Stk, 53 per Ct Do Account Iran ill GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 214 Do Account...... Do 5 per Cent. July , 1870 Do 4 per Cent., Oct , 1688 Do Certificates Do Account .. Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 p er Cent.) — Do 41 pei Cent. Do Enfaced P a per, 4 per Cent .. Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 100 Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 .......... Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 ...... ...... __. 13 on d 1:1,000 ................. Do under £1, 000 ... ................. LOSING PRICES. FOR EIGN CFUNDS— Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ............ Brazilian 5 per Cent ................... Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ........ -- Do 11863 ................ Buenos Ayres 6 per, Cent .............. 92 Do Account.... ............ L ...... Chilian 6 per Cent ..................... Do 41 per Cent .................... Colombian 6 per Cent ................. Cuba, 6 per Cent. .................... Do 5 per Cent. 1864 ................ Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 .............. Do 6 per Cent, 1864 .............. Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. Do, Provisonal:Land Warrant.. Egyptian 7 per Cent .................. 951 5 Do, Second Issue ..................91 5 Do £lOO Bonds ................... 95 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-6,' ex-Coupons.. 211 2 Do Account ........................ Do Coupons ........................ Do Account ........................ Guatemala 5 per Cent. ................ Do 1839 and 1859 .................. Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) -- Mexican 3 per Cent ..................261 1 Do Account ........................ Do 188 4 . — die Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French ........ die Ditto Scrip, £33 paid.... ............ dis d D o French Scrip, Ex. 25f 200........ dis d M oor i s h Imperial 6 per Cen t .......... -- New Granada ........................ Do 2 per Cent. ............... Do Deferred ........................ Do Land Warrants (Hectares) ........ D o D e benturee, 4 por C t., April 1861.. Do do Aug., 1866.... Peruvian 41 per Cent ................. Do 3 por Cent. (Uribarren) . ....... Do 4/ per Cent., 1862 .............. Do Account.... .................... Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 .......... Do Account ...................... -- Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '60,'.62;3.. 461 1 I Do Account ........................ -- Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St ........ Do 4± per Cent., 1 850 ................ -- Do 1860 ................ Do 3 per Ce nt 1859 ................ 53i Do 6 per Cent, 1862 .......... 871 6 a Do Anglo-Dutch .............. 86± Do Scrip, £65 paid .................. Sardinian 5 per Cent .............. 83 2} -- Do Account .......................• Spanish 3 per Cent .................. " Do Account ........................ 47 Do New Deferred .................. Do Account ...................... 1 D o Passive ........................ 30/ 1/ 3 D o Account ........................ 11 Spanish Cert. of Co u p not funded ...... 311 Do I Do Account ........................ Swedish, 4 per Cent ............... pm o Scri, £6O aid .................. Tur D kish 6 p per Ce p nt. 1854 .............. 88 1 Do Account ........................ Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ................ Do Account ........................ Do £lOO Bonds .................... Do 6 per Cent. 1862 ................ 701 1 1 701 Do Account .................... Do £lOO Bonds .................... 701 1 701 Do 1863 .............. Do Guaranteed , 4 'per Cent..... ...... 99 Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid ............ Venezuela 3 per Cent. ........ :do Account ........................ Do 6 per Cent., 1862 ................ 551 Do Account ........................ Do 6 per Cent., 1864 .............. 421 401 Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian, 5 per Cent,, Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 41 p e r Cent ~Ex. 25f......... Dutch 2} per Cont. Ex. 12 ........ Do 4 per Cont. dertificates .......... French Rentes, 2 per Cent.. ........... -- Italian 5 per Cont., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. Do :I ' ceortnt .................. 64 3 . 1 Peruvian Dollar Bonds 41 per Ct. E x. 4s. -- Pi e dmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25 f••.'" VI-11XE O'CLOCK, Consols, Money.. .................... 89 ± 1 Do Account... ............... . 1 Liverpool Cotton Market—This DAYS Market opens with a good inquiry. Sales, pro. bably about 12,000 bales. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3i per mills pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per .£1 sterling. On compa ring these rates with the English Min that gold is t price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it app ears nearly 2-IGths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. k By advic:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mar and the short exchange on London is 13.5. per .£1 sterling, St an dard gold at the English M int p rice is, therefore, about 7-lotha per cent. dearer in Loudon than in hamburg, SHARE It iiRKETS—This day. ORDINARY SIIARES AND 5T0026.3. Faid. ! Closing Business Share! Railways. ! Brice. , done. Wol., and Str. Val. ;t iUythe and Tyne. 3t Bristol and Exeter 3t Caledonian 50 fork and Bandon 10 Cornwall l 0 Do A gets no div 10 Do. B till ep c.p an.has been paid to B. 50 Dublin & Belfast June. 15 Dun.,l'crth,&Ab. June. st Edinburgh & Glasgow. st Glasg. and S. Western. st Great Eastern, Ord. stk et Ditto A stook et Ditto East Anglian at et GreatNorthof Sootland st Great Northern.....` st Do A stook at Do B do st Gt. S. anal. W. of 'lreland at Great Western,Original et Do Str Val gua. stock at Do. South Wales' 81 44 I 123} 1211 51 6} 31 33 16 17 84 86 105 107 13i 44i 61 71 1191 134 142 144 129 131 8) 91 74t 75k .t Do. West Mid.—Oxford t Do Newport it Do Hereford it Lancashire & Yorkshire it Loudon and Blackwall st Lon., Bright., &S. Coast st Lon., Chat., and Dover it Lon. & North Western st Lon. & Scrsth Western st Man., Shef., & Lincoln. iO Maryport and Carlisle. l L 2 Do f shares... 3t Nietropolitan et Midland st Do Birming. & Derby 50 Mid. Cit. W. of Ireland 65 Do. shares _ _ 53 54 30 42 91 101 An 114 66 67 103 (05 38 4C 114, 1154 94 96 64i 65i 1114 2121 134 18 . 21 102 101 a &lid Kent at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee at Nth. Eastern—Berwia 26 62 63 24 55 1066 1076 -d 65 C 6 95 96 125 130 $156 386 0 10 76 86 p 118 123 1 16 p Do, G.N.E. purohast it Do Leeds It Do York 4t Do Carlisle.....• • • B 6 Do. Stock. it Darling. 16 Do do 1855-58 26 Do do 188 G-61 et North London 10 Do New 10 Do New, 1864. st North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Juuotion. st Scottish Central et Scot. N. E., Aber. stook st Do Soot. Mid. stook 10 Shrews. and Welohpool st Shropshire Union st South st South Eastern 20 Staines,Wok.,andWok st Taff Vale -10 Do C st Vale of Neath st Waterford & Kilkenny 76 77 10 11} 134 138 66 68 86 87 821 831 S 9 155 160 3i t, 98 100 • • it West Cornwall It W. Hartlepool Har.&R 32 34 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Paid. Closing Prioe. Railways 10 ktlantio &St Lawrenc( lord., Baroda&Cent Inu Gu. 5 per cent......• • ?0 Do. B. Shares... !Oa lanai() and LaKe Duro] 10 Do. PreierolloC ..•• • • 10 ,luffalo, Brant,&Godriel . I p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 147 10 'Jo. do. July 1, 187 )o. do. JIM,. 1, IS7 st ileutta.& S. k: as tn. (Lill 9t 3apeTown .t Dock Scr )0 Demerara 7 p.o. per. pf Kok slastn. Bengal gu. bp. DOk h:ast Indian. U. 5 p. c 20 Do. do. J Ext ock irand Trunk of Cana , ' • 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent 00 Do. Ist fret. Bondy 00 Do. do. deferred..." • 00 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds 00 Do. do. deterred 00 Do. 3d Pref. stock 00 Do. do. deferred.- 00 Do. 4th Pref. stock 00 Do. do. deferred.• oak Gt.lndlaPenin.gua.sp.e 20 Do. GUI. 6 per cent 20 Do. New gua. sp. a ook It. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. ock Do. 42 per cent Do. .. ;t. W. of Canada Share, Do. New .. *• • )0 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. )0 Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.. .. 10 Indian Branch L imited ) ck liadras. guar. , p. 0. .. )ck Do. 41 p. o. Extensiot )ok De. 4t do-- —• • 10 Do. Fifth Extension. )ek itelb•Corp. 6p. o. Bnth 50 %.1e11). & ilobson's Bay. 10 Newlirtm 9 WlO Clinch Class A and B. 7.11.1.e'da6 po Ist t bdr ,ock Soinde eel Do. Delhi • E ._ to Do. do •• • • m st Do. Punjaub ook Do. Indus•St F 10.4) 51 58 100 101 4 dis pr 4i b 7 8 93 103 92 94 100} 1011 100 101 10 20 83 92 67 70 50 dl 63 65 55 57 51 53 96 50 28 30 26 28 100 i 101 i id pr id 1r 99 100 9 9i 114 11. 20 92 77 81 d 100 I 101 93 95 88 90 8 CO E 6 80 83 99 100 08/ 99/ id par 08/ 99/ 95 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 0 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.... 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 ;ari.((or.o p.o.Ja. 1877-81 100 94 90 93 0 Do. Ap. 0. Feb. & Aug 100 91 94 Do.d p. o. Mar. dc sera 100 91 Ut Do. 6p. o. Jan.&July. tot se /35 8.12 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 78 82 ape G. Hope, 6 p o,I87: 100 104 106 Do.Ap . Oct 1881 100 104 106 Do. 1891 100 1( 5 107 )o. Jan. & July. 1891.. 100 107 10) cylon, N0v.1863, 6 p 100 102 105 Vo. 1878, do. 1 00 1(9 112 ',landaus 6 p.cent.lB73 00 102 105 Do. 1878 100 104 107 Do. 1882 100 106 108 Natal Goy. 6 per cont.. 100 192 le4 p.o.Ja.,lrJuly 100 93 96 S. W. G ov. 5 p c., 186. 100 97 99 DO. sp. c.,18)4 to I.it 100 95 97 Do. d0.,1888 ezupwch 100 94 06 New Zealand 6 p cent 100 102 104 NT ova Scotia Gov. 6p. sterling, 1875. lOO 96 03 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 100 102 1011 Aus Gov. 6 p.e.1E68- 100 Do. 1-78 Ac ukward3... 100 105 107 Vlo.Gov. 6 p.o. JaAJUI) 100 - Do. to 6 p.o. 1.0.31.0c4.. 100 1011 1051 105 41 BRITISH MINES. ;ambrian Consol. Gold Chiverton ;oxford Amalgamated i)evon G. Cons. (Tavist Drakewal;s....,• East Bassett (Illogau) East Caradon ..... ,ast Cann 8rea.....• • • East Grenville • • East Lovell .. .. W '1 Russel (Tavistk. I am.&St•Aubyn(Gwen Great Laxey, Great South ',Coigns... Wheal Vor(llelston )renville flerod's-Foot ...... tlingston Downs ‘largaret (tiny Lelant it arke ‘lyndv Iron Ore (Lim. . New Seton North Downs . , North Roskear.. . v.ll Basset (111o.fan s7orth Wheal Crotty Prosper erovidenoe ( Uny Lelut. south Caradon(St•Cleer ?Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park fin Croft West Basset (Illogan).. 'A' Cr radon (Liskeard West Chiverton West Seton ...... Wheal Basset (Illogan Wheal Buller (Redruth: WhealLndeott Wheal Mary Ann (Dien. Wheal teton Wheal Trelawney (Lis Wheal Union 2.1.0. 3.14. E 3.4.0 2.7.0. 2.13.6. 8.13., 7 6.13 4.18.( 214 3 20a 3.10.0 2.8 0 7.1. e. 10 6.7 Ls.is.v 3.5. i. PREFERENCE SHARES: = ----- --- Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 2, 1011 Great Northern, 41 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 101 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. S. York. and River Dun, 1001 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 Bahia and San Francisco gua. 7 per ocut., 144 Belgian Eastern Junction, 11 Imperial Mexican, 21 FOREIGN MINES, Bt. John del Rey (Urn.), 31 2 BANKS. Agra and Mastermttn's (Urn.), 110 Alliance (rim.), 33 30 Ditto, new, 32 1 29 Ditto, new, issued at 20:pm., 15 17 Anglo Austrian, (4 Australasia, 701 Bank of Egypt, 24 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 334 3 Commercial Bank of India and the East, Ditto, issued at 10:pm., of which 10 is pd., 271 Consolidated Bank, lim., 91 / East London, lim., 5/ English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 20 European Bank, lirn., 81 9 Imp e rial Bank (11m.), 29 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London and Brazilian (lim.), 42 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 23 London and Comity. 70t 1 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, lim., 101 London and South African, 21 20i London and South-Western, lim., 21 London and W estminster, 04} Merchant Bank, lim., 2)4 Mercantile and Exchange, lim., Ditto, new, 7/ Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 18 National Bank, Ditto, new, 611 Oriental Dana Corporation, 631 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, Dm., 11 Union of London, 604 DOCKS. East and West India, 136/ London and St. Katharine, 67 1 61 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, Rm., 81 City Offices, lira., 2/ Credit FOnCler and Mobilier of England, 13i Ditto (X 2 ), 3 Egyp ti a n Cora. an d Trading, Um., 41 1 English and Australian Copper, 11 Financial Corporation, 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Km., 61 1 Hudson's Bay, 15 Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso. Urn., el Internat i ona l Financial society, Am., 6 51 Joint Stock Discount, lira., 31 3 London Financial Association, lim., 201 London General Omnibus Company, 21 Royal Mail Steam, 14 , Knight, Bud c0.,11m., 31 I Smith, mg SUN, LONIX" WEDNESt) Y EIMINING, OCTOBER 26, 1864. CENTRAL CRIXINAL COURT—This Day, OLD COURT. (Before Mr Baron Martin ) CHARGE OF WOUNDING WITH INTENT, ETC. Raymond Roderiquez, a Spaniard, was indicted for the manslaughter of a man named De Leon. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased and the prisoner were in a publichouse, the Rose and Crown, St. George's-in-the-East. A quarrel took place, when Roderi uez drew a knife and inflicted such injuries upon De Leon that ho died in a short time after. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. The learned Judgo sentenced tho prisoner to 12 months' mprisonment with hard labour. 44 n fi NEW COURT. (Before Mr Justioo Wines.) SENDING THREATENING LETTERS TO LORD CUItZON. 129 k 31 141 4 5 131 30 741 I 5 John Hill, about 50 years of ago, described as a farmer, was indicted for feloniously writing and sending certain letters to Viscount Curz)n, son of Earl Howe, threatening to kill and murder him for some fancied injury his family had sustained through Earl Howe. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and conducted his own defence. 160 113 1 66 1031 3 38 113; 15 95 05i 111} 4 131} 301 From the statement of the learned counsel, the evidence of Viscount Curzon and other witnesses, and the letters re ceived by the noble lord, those relied on, containing the threat to kill, were received in the month of February and August last, and stated that the prosecutor's father was formally a tenant and occupier of a farm belonging to Earl Howe in Leicestershire, and that for some cause ho had been refused a renewal of his tenantcy of the farm, and being called upon to give up the farm the prisoner and the other members of his family conceived the idea that their father had been unjustly ejected by Earl Howe's bailiff from the farm, and the prisoner complained that he had been entirely thrown on the world and his family grossly Injured. The prisoner was charged with writing the letters in question, and when the officers arrested him he admitted writing the letters, and intended to carry the threat into execution. It also appeared that the prisoner, on the 12th of July last, was seen by a police sergeant walking up and down Hollis-street, and to delibe rately break two windows in Lord Curzon's house. The prisoner merely contradicted all the witnesses, and declared what they had said was false, and stated that when he was taken into custody by Sergeant Bird, of the detec tive force, he was taken to Scotland-yard, and after Lord Curzon had been sent for, he was offered £5O to go to Aus tralia, which ho refused. The statement was positively denied by Sergeant Bird. The prisoner did not address the jury, but merely stated that he was innocent. 107} p 761 7 831 3 The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said—lt must be clear to every person in court, as it is to myself, that you ar• an exceedingly silly person—indeed I believe you to bo a very great fool. The jury have had to consider your silly, doltish, and foolish conduct, and they are of opinion that you are guilty of the charge imputed to you. Fools, how ever, must be taught that they cannot commit crime with impunity. Had the jury not taken a considerate view of your case, and recommended you to mercy, the Court would have felt.it incumbent tepees on you a severe sentence i because the idea that landlords can tyrannise over their tenants in this country is perfectly absurd, wicked, and foolish. Business don( 100/ Prisoner—l never did it. The learned Judge continued—Your conduct has been most contemptible, and the sentence of the Court is that you be committed to the House of Correction for two years, with hard labour. Prisoner—Well, I didn't do it, and I'm as innocent as you are. 100} 1 1001 THE LATE NATAL SHOOTING& IN EPPING FOREST. John Mourdant, a respectable lad, surrendered to an in dictment charging him with causing the death of another lad, named Jameson. The prisoner, it will be recollected, met the deceased and some other boys in Epping Forest, and after some angry words had passed between them, the defendant, having a short Enfield rifle in his hand, threatened to shoot the de ceased, and placed the rifle to his shoulder, when it went off, the contents lodging in the body of the unfortunate boy J ameson. The defendant, when he saw Jameson fall, exclaimed, " My gracious 1" and did all ho could to hasten medical assistance. Jameson, however, lingered for some days, bnt eventually died. Alter the evidence had proceeded for a short time, the learned Judge said to prove a case of manslaughter it was necessary to prove a case of great negligence, but the pre sent appeared to be purely accidental. The jury immediately returned a verdict of acquittal. The learned Judge said he had been considering whether ho ought to make any remarks to the prisoner, hut he ap peared to have suffered much already, and ho had no doubt his parents had already done that in a more effectual man -99i 9 ,nu than ho could hope to do. The defendant was then liberated. 884 'if 8 El 100; SENDING A THREATENING LETTER. Daniel Christopher, 41, clerk, pleaded guilty to an indict ment for feloniously sending a threatening letter to Thomas hopper. Mr Sleigh and Mr Orridgo prosecuted, and Kr Bowden defended. It appeared from the statement ma 'e by Mr Sleigh that the prosecutor is a merchant, in the city. and he had actod as the guardian of a widow lady, whose husband had been in his service. The prisoner was her nephew, and she leaving some property ho thought he was entitled to it. There was not the most remote reason for the supposition, as the prisoner was not known to the prosecutor until long after the lady's death. He then made a claim on the pro secutor with the threatening letter in question. A sentence of eighteen months' imprisonment was passed upon the prisoner. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This day. MARLBOROUGH -ST aEET. ---- - BRUTALITY TO A CAT.—Robert Parker, a boy, living in Green's-court, Peter-street, St, James's, appeared before Mr Tyrwhitt to answer the complaint of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of cruelly illtreat ing and torturing a cat. Mrs Ann Mason, residing in Peter-street, stated that on the 21.1 of September last she saw the defendant kick a cat in the most brutal manner, causing it to scream from agony, On expostulating with the defendant ho made use of the vilest language towards her. She:then went to the office of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and on ono of the officers (Dobie) seeing the cat it was still in great agony and unable to walk. In answer to the magistrate Mrs Mason said the cat was quietly walking across the road when the defendant kinked it, and she had to speak to the defendant before owing to his cruelty. Mr Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 20s or a month, stating that he was a cruel young fellow, and would go on till he got illtroating human beings. 331 3 4 9 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. TUESDAY. An unusually large entry and acceptance for the last of the great autumn events distinguishes the Cambridgeshire of this year. With one or two exceptions, the field, in point of quality, hardly differed from that for the Cesarewitch, A number of but very indifferent performers promised to swell its ranks—of racehorses, in the true meaning of the term, a very few. As in the Cesarewitch, too, the young ones appeared to have the best of the weights. Speculation has exhibited the usual amount of fluctua tion which the returns from the Corner have made us all acquainted with. Brick and Gratitude have kept remark ably firm, and yesterday afternoon saw the resuscitation of another old favor in Stockinger. The favourable reports as to what Columbia had done with Lcrd Burleigh and Ely brought her also to a short price, while Ackworth and Sac charomete , the former especially, were supported with great Oucof the 54 entered on the card the large geld of 38 faced the starter at the appointed hour-1 15—but a very tedious delay, caused by the brcakinas away of some and the reluctance of others to coma to the front, kept everyone in suspense for upwards of an hour. At length came the welcome cry of " they're off," and soon a compact-looking body were seen ascending the hill. Approaching the rails both Brick and Gratitude were seen to be beaten, Saccharo meter, who had been going well to this point, also retiring, while in the front rank were perceived the colours of the Marquis of Hastings, Baron Rothschild, and the Count de Lagrange, along with those of Columbia's and the High flyer's dam colt. The race resulted in an interesting struggle between Ackworth and Tomato, the former winning in the last two strides by a short head. The All-aged Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft; 15 soya ft, if declared in the Craven, and 25 sovs ft if declared in the July meeting ; these fts to be divided between the first and second horses; 2-yr-olds to carry Tat ; 3-yr-olds Bst 121 b; 4-yr-oldsl and upwards, 9st 51b. The winners extra. Bretby Stakes Course. 16 subs. Mr B. Angell's Lord Burleigh, 5 yrs, 9st 51b (F ard ham) 1 Lord Coventry's Exchequer, 5 yrs, Oat (J. Adams) 2 Sir J. Hawley's Argonaut, 5 yrs, 9st 51b (Wells) 3 Betting-7 to 4 each agst Argonaut and Lord Burleigh. Immediately the flag was lowered the favourite, who was wide of his horses, jumped round, and was left at his post. Lord Burleigh took a slight lead as they got away, which he increased as ho came on, and won in a canter by ton lengths. ]Match—both 3-yr-olds. Ab. M. ; 200 sovs, h ft. Lord Annesley's Finesse, Bst 71b (Fordham) 1 Mr Payne's Olivia, 7st 61b ...... (H. Grimshaw) 2 Betting-7 to 4on Olivia. Olivia cut out the work at ber best to the brow of the hill, where she was joined by Finesse, who in a few strides further took a slight lead and won cleverly by a length. Fifty Pounds, for 2-yr olds carrying sst 71b; 3 .yr-olds, Bst 41b ; 4-yr-olds, Oat 2,b ; 5-yr-olds, 6-yr-olds, and aged, Oat 51b. The winner with his engagements to be sold for 300 guineas, if demanded, &c. Last three miles of B.C. Lord Westmoreland's Troubadour, by Lambton, 2 yrs, sst 71b Mr T. H. D. Tayly's Orloff, 2 yrs ' sst 71b ..(F. Armin) 2 Mr Naylor's Gay Deceiver, 2 3 rs,sst 71b ..(Hustable) 3 The following also ran—Fusee, Lopear, and Lady Flo rence. Betting-6 to 4on Troubadour; sto 1 agst Lady Flo rence. Orloff got away with a clear lead, followed by Gay De ceiver, Lopear, and Lady Florence, Fusco and Trobadour lying up. Crossing the flag the lead was considerably extended, and as they made the turn of the lands Fusee quitted his rearward position and joined the leaders, who ran in company to the site of the Old Duke's Stand, where Grimshaw brought up Troubadour on the inside, and half-way joined Orloff, whom he headed a dozen strides from home, and won a good race by three parts of a length ; a bad third. The others finished abreast, beaten off. The Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 cove each, 10 ft, and 5 if declared, with 100 added ; winners extra ; the owner of the second horse to receive 60 sous out of the stakes. Cambridgeshire Course. 221 subs, 80 of whom declared. Marquis of Hastintrs's Ackworth, 3 yrs, ist .. (Cannon) 1 Baron Rothschild's Tomato, 2 yrs, 7st 51b (Maidment) 2 Mr W. G. Bennett's liigbflyer's dam colt, 3 yre, Get (11. Sharpe) 3 The following also ran :—Twilight, Vivid, Miner, Blue Mantle, Saccharometer, Gabrielle d'Estrees, Donnybrook, Deerfoot, Prince Plausible, Old Orange Girl, Taj e, Brick, Birch Broom, Leonora, Accident, Tattoo,Queen of Trumps, Rose, Skeffington, Golden Drop, Muezzin, Stockinger, Mail Train, Bayard, Planet, Valiant, Myrtle, Gratitude, Fanf relucho, Canzanette, Mrs Somerville, Columba, Co lumbia, Battaglia, and Alabama. Bettin-7 to 2 agst Stockinger, 11 to 2 agst Gratitude, 6 to 1 aget Brick, 10 to 1 agst Columbia, 10 to 1 agst Sac. charometer, 12 to 1 agst Ilighflyer's dam colt, 16 to 1 aget Ackworth, `BO to 1 agst Prince Plausible, 25 to 1 agst Birch Broom, 40 to 1 age, Queen of Trumps, 50 to 1 agst Skef fington, 1000 to 15 agst Blue Mantle, Muezzin, Bayard, and Mail Train, 100 to 1 aget Twilight, Vivid, Deerf oot, Old Orange Girl, and Tajo. Exactly ono hour was consumed at the post before Mr M'Georgo was enabled to lower his signal, which fell to an excellent start; but in a-a...eq....0a af fao h,. flint Lu.s u 1.11t3 iioatli it was with some difficulty that the colours of the riders were distinguished. After running some short distance nearly in line the squadron broke up, and Blue Mantle came on with a slight lead of Queen of Trumps, Saccharometer, Columbia, Highflyer's dam colt, and Stock inger on the lower ground, having Gratitude, Brick, Ack • worth, and Tomato on their right. The next division, who were wide of their horses on the higher ground, was headed by Vivid, Prince Plausible, Planet, Birch Broom, Mail Train, Accident, and Alabama, with the ruck lying in a cluster in their wake, Tajo, Rose, and Mrs Somerville acting as whippers in. Passing the new stand Blue Mantle gave way to Queen of Trumps, closely followed by Saccharometer, Columbia, Gratitude, and Ackworth, close up with whom were Brick, Stockinger, Skeffington, Vivid, Myrtle, Mail Train, and Count Batthyany's colt, but on rising the hill rho loader was beaten, followed in a few strides further by Brick, Stockinger, and Prince Plausible. Saccharometer then came on with the running to the site of the Old Duke's Stand, where ho was in difficulties, and shortly after gave way to Columbia on the upper ground, who, apparently full of running, held a clear lead of Gratitude, who was followed on her loft by Ackworth, Tomato, and the High flyer's dam colt to the rails, where Columbia dropped back, and loud shouts proclaimed the anticipated success of Gra titude, who was loft in front, but these hopes were short lived, as she died away to nothing half-way up, leaving the Baron's filly with the lead; but Cannon, who had been riding ,with exemplary patience, gradually drew upon her as they reached the brow of the hill, where he made a sell-timed effort, and got up in the last stride, and won a splendid race by a head. The Highflyer's dam colt finished an indifferent third, Columbia was fourth, Gratitude fifth, Vivid sixth, with Skeffington, Saccharometer, Myrtle, Mail Train, Stockinger, Birch Broom, and Planet close up. The last lot comprised Accident, Prince Plausible, Donnybrook, Brick, Deerfoot, Battaglia, and Fanfreluche, the two last being Mrs Somerville and Tajo. Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 cove each, 10 ft, for 3- yr-olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 200 soya if demanded, &e. R.M. 6 subs. Lord Claremont's Troublesome, 5 yrs, Bst (Kelly) 1 Colonel M. Martin's Oberon, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b.... (Morgan) 2 Mr 11. Ton Broeck's Peignoir, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (Fordham) 3 Mr Saxton's Zara, 4 yrs, Bst .(J. Grinashaw) 4 Overstone also ran. Betting-5 to 2 agst Troublesome, 3to 1 agstPeignoir, 4 to 1 each agst Zara and Oberon, Oberon made play to the bushes, followed by Troublesome and Peignoir, whore the favourite took up the running,was never headed, and won in a canter by three lengths, Peig noir was a bad third. Fifty Pounds for 3-yr-olds, 7st 111 b ; 4-yr-olds, Bst 101 b; 5-yr-aids, 6-yr-olds, and aged, Bst 131 b. Maidens allowed 71b, 11,M. Baron Rothschild's llippolyta, 3 yrs ( Daley) 1 Sir F. Johnstone 's Johnny Armstrong, 5 yrs (J Gloater) 2 Mr Longfield's Gem of the Sea, 4 yrs (Custauce) 3 Mr Cherry's Handley Cross, 3 yrs (J, Grimshaw) 4 Mr Merry's Sir R o g er, 3 y rs (F. Caroll) 5 Mr T, Taylor's M ahara j ah, 3 y r 5 .~, Mr G. Bryan's L ad y H y lda, 3 y rs (Ly nch) 7 .. Betting-6 to 4 agst Hippolyta, 6to 1 aget Sir Roger. Hippolyta, with a slight lead, closely attended by Johnny Armstrong and Gem of the Sea, came on to the foot of the hill, where, shaking off her horses, she went in an easy winner two lengths in advance of Johnny Armstrong. Gem of the Sea was a bad third ; the rest wore beaten off. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. T.Y.C. 12 subs. Mr Alexander's Peon, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Woodhouse) 1 Mr Craven's Almack, 4 yre, 7sl iffi b (F. French) 2 Mr Hodgman's Ilawkshaw, 3 yrs, 64 101 b .... (Morris) 3 Walloon, Crocket colt, Crisis, and Chicot the Jester also ran. Betting-7 to 4 ngst Peon, 3to 2 agst Almack, 6to 1 agst Crisis, 10 to 1 ngst any ether. Chicot the Jester made play fur the first quarter of a mile, when Hawkshaw went to the front, attended by the Crochet colt. At the distance the latter dropped back, and half way up the cords Peon, corning with a rush, headed the two others, and won easily by two lengths, Hawkshaw finished a length behind Almack. Crisis was fourth, Chicot the Jester fifth, Walloon sixth, and Crochet colt last. Free Handicap, Sweepstakes or 30 soya, 2) ft, for 3-yr-olds and upwards; winners extra. T.Y.C. 5 subs, The Bst ' 4lb highest weight accepting being 7st Gib, it has been raised to Bst 101 b, and the others in proportion. Duke of Beaufort's Crytheia 3 yrs, 7bt 121 b (Fordham) 1 c 3 co Y e r k s , 6 yrs, Bst 51b (J. Grimshaw) 2 .. (Cowie.) ) 3 s''ssitG;aseineb'ula, 4 yrs, Bat 51b ..... (Challoner) 4 Mr l rMrr NTR . W reee o l oic ( et ' M s Vesper, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b.......... (Custance) 5 Betting-7 to 4 agst Crytheia, 100 to 30 agst Gamecock, 4 to 1 agst Rose, and 5 to 1 agst Nebula. Hesper got away in front, and was closely followed by Gamecoc k, Rose, and Cry theia into the cords, where the first named were beaten, leaving Rose with a slight lead, which she retained to within halt' a dozen strides of the chair, when Fordham brought up the favourite, and won a fine race by a short head ; a bad third, Optional Selling Stakes of 5 Boys each, with 25 added, for 2-yr-old colts, Sst 121 b, and fillics, Bst 81b ; with selling allowances. 'T.Y.c. 9 subs. Mr G. Crook's Brown Willy, by Wild Payroll, 7st 51b, £6O (E. Taylor) 1 Lord Uxbridge's llerschel, 7st 51b, £6O .. (Morris) 2 Mr Seymour's Bessy, ist Ilb, £6O (H. Covey) 3 The following also ran : —Godmersham, Garnet, Junes ton, Ninetta, Incision, and Lord Roland. Betting-2 to 1 agst Incision, 3to 1 each agst Herschel and Brown Willy. _ _ E rown Willy jumped off with a clear lead, was never after caught, and won in a canter by two lengths, a length sepa rated the second and third. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for 2 and 3- yr-olds. T.Y.C. 16 subs. Mr Bowes's Coup d'Etat, 3 yrs, Bst 1ib.... (Woodhouse) 1 Qtr Jackson's Sidewind, 2 yrs, 7st 21b (Carol) 2 Mr Craven's P►ovisor, 2 yrs, 7st 21b (Loates) 3 The following also ran :—Moulsey, Dawdle, Idle Girl, Athelstane, Idumea, Black Duchess, Verdant, Kathleen, and Pinch filly. Betting-7 to 4on Coup d'Etat, 6to 1 agst Provisor, 6 to 1 agst Moulsey, 10 to 1 agst any other. The favourite, slipping his horses, came on with a clear Lead, and won in a canter by two lengths, Sidewind defeat ing Provisor by a length and a half. WEIGHTS FOR THE NURSERY-FRIDAY. st lb Zambesi Athelstane Le Bernais Brahma Missionary Sancho.. Siberia Laurel Monitor Discretion .. 8 2 Vest colt Heir at Law Eltham Scarborough Brown Bread Harold 8 0 Watchbox The Swift Advance .. The Grinder King Arthur . 7 13 Edinburgh Jack Jukes Cambail .. 7 11 Newcourt Moestissima filly .. 7 10 Saloon Ardericca 7 10 Contract Lady Florence Welfare Provisor Whiteleg filly 7 7 Salpinctes Charity . . Troubadour 7 7 Hetty Indigestion Vixen Wild Poppy Goram (late Enone) King Alfred Hanstead .. Canterbury 7 4 Sentinel Cadogan (late Chelsea) 7 4 Kato Hampton Spice Cacula 7 4 Puck Dogo 7 3 st lb Endsleigh Latitude Sister Mary 7 3 Club Queen 7 3 Prosperity Arkansas 7 2 Cockcrow Nu Amber 7 1 Redmire Lily Lye 7 0 ' Jack Ketch Lavender Imogene filly Pink (late Kathleen Mavourneen, late Black Duchess) Mincemeat filly 6 13 Verdant General Rally Jevington (late Saute Ruisseau) Cramp Quill Flying Horse Joss-stick Scheldt The Brigand Rose of Denmark Bella Graoe Darling 6 9 Scylla Rosetta 6 8 011erton Glen Isla 6 7 Mish3p oolt Kildare .. Jetty Treffz fitly 6 7 Pepper's Ghost The Gay Deceiver 6 6 Anadyomene Belgrave Lady Wildair colt Lanedown Camillus Cripplegate .... Cobweb Lady Cochrane limey Bae Lady Rollo Brother to Guerilla Mr. W. E, Forster, np., on American Slavery; Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., presided last week at a meet ing held at tho Mechanics' Institution, Bradford, under the auspices of the Western Freed Men's Aid Commission. le said that the address tf that commission showed that in the progress of the fearful contest waging in the United States the slaves had flocked within the Federal lines in multitudes, in a condition of wretchedness and want, clothed in rags, toil-worn by marches, depressed and afflicted by privations and exposure. He considered that, apart from the actual distress, the slaves of America had strong claims on the sympathy of England. He could not forgot that whoa the starving people of Ireland were in great distress the Americans most generously oamo forward and relieved them. He could not forgot that, a few months ago, when he sad and terrible war caused great misery in Lancashire, notwithstanding the claims which the Americans had at home, they came forward most nobly to the assistance of the Lancashire poor. It was therefore now the turn of England to pay back to the suffering Americans, for though black these negroes weroAmericans,what they had done for us. Besides the claims of distress and gratitude, they had also the special claim that we were friends of the coloured man and haters of slavery. They had also this claim upon us, that the existing state of things followed the etnancipa • Um of the slave in British dominions. It followed the efforts which had boon made to bring the people of America to the same standard as ourselves, and to consider slavery a Bin. No ono could deny the stand which was made in this country against American slavery, and the protests which were being constantly dinned into the ears of Americans who came amongst us, how inconsistent slavery was with their institutions, and that those remonstrances had had a great effect in raising that feeling in America which induced the people of that couutly to take such a position against the extension of slavery that the slave holder felt the institution threatened ; therefore, he rebelled, and the war began, He was not going to speak of the merits and demerits of that war, but should confine his remarks to the condition of the negro in consequence of it, They had heard that ➢lr Jefferson Davis had estimated the number of emancipated slaves at 2,000,000. Whether there was that number, or whether there was only ono- half, it was a set-off against the evils of the war, but such a change could not be brought about without immense suffering. They must expect it to be severe, and this country having been instrumental in bringing it about, we were especially bound to do what wo could to relieve it. He did not regret that we had been thus instrumental in bringing the existing state of things to their present con dition, for wo had only taken the position which wo would have taken the more strongly and the more earnestly years ago if wo had known how. It was certainly not our fault that we had raised the standard of freedom, and done all that we could to excite our fellow-Christians in America who felt as they ought for their enslaved follow-citizens. It was not because we did our duty in this respect that therefore we were to blame; blame, of course, fell upon those who were now reaping the terrible punishment —upon those who preferred to continue slavemasters rather than listen to the protests against it. Though the sufferings of the negroes were great, he must not allow those whom ho addressed to go away with the idea that they were no better before their present condition was brought about. They had most delightful and encouraging proofs of the improve ment in the condition of the negro, there were encouraging instances of the noble manner in which, generally speaking, the negro race had respandod to the call that had been made upon them by the circumstances of the war. Gen. Banks, who was sent down to be governor of Louisiana after the Federal army had taken possession of it, had under his protection many thousands of emancipated negroes. In March last he wrote stating he had no doubt whatever the emancipated coloured people could discharge all the duties incident to the great change in their condi - tion. He had seen them in all situations within the last year and a half, and they seemed to have a clearer comprehen• slut of their position and duties than many o' her classes Among other things they demanded they should not be flogged, that they should only labour when they were well treated, and that their children should bo educated. The touching earnestness with which these poor people asked for the education of their children was one of the most encour aging facts connected with their condition. Though when Gen. Banks assumed the command of that depart ment there were many thousands of coloured people without employment, and many suffering from disease, there were not in March 500 who were not self-supporting. Col. Hanks, the superintendent of negro slavery in the Gulf department, said, in February last, he had 6,500 coloured men at work on the abandoned plantations and fortifications, and he had no difficulty with them, although it was true that some of them had a dislike to return to their old masters. He (Mr Forster) considered that among all the different and extraordinary statements that had been published in the English press there had been no more common statement than that, however abstractedly slavery might bo an evil, yet there was a great difficulty in getting rid of it ; and that emancipation would practically end in failure, because negroes would never have the courage to fight for their freedom; and such was the degraded condi tion that they would not work without being compelled. Both these assertions had been contradicted by facts. The slave had earned respect in America from those whose pre judices were against him. rilr Felbrigg, a Boston merchant, had grown large quantities of cotton in the Sea Islands; and by holding out the hope to the negroes of good payment eventually ho had proved, that with all the peculiar diffie culties under which the experiment was labouring, the cost of cultivation was very little more, if not Itas, than when it was grown by the negroes during their slavery. Such a fact should make England hopeful with regard to the negro ; and it should also be considered as a commercial value for themselves. Even if the South succeeded, which was not so certain even in the eyes of their friends, slavery was disorganised to that extent that it would not do for England any longer to rely upon it, not merely as friends of the negrc, not merely as men who wished that a great industry should no longcr depend on the sinful system of slavery for its support, but also as men who had a commercial interest in the supply of the most important article of English in dustry being placed on the soundest foundation. They must look to these experiments with the greatest interest and hope for their success. 1 The claims of the society were afterwards advocated by Mr L. Coffin, the Rcv. Dr. Massie, and other speakers. Resolutions were carried in favour of the formation of an auxiliary at Bradford. A vote of thanks was given to Mr Forster for presidinie, and for his efforts on the American question in Parliament. This concluded the proceedings. Corkiere dell E»atlia confirms the news that the Marquis Pepoli presented his letters of recall to the Empe ror of Russia at Darmstadt. The journal adds that the Czar and Prince Gortsehakoff expressed in the most cour teous manner their regret at his retirement, HE 'DON, (Prow the Registrar-General's Report.) In the week that ended on Saturday the deaths of 1,355 persona were registered in London. The average number of deaths in corresponding weeks of ten years, 1851-63, was 1,080, and if a correction is made for increase of population, it becomes 1,188. It appears therefore that the deaths ex ceeded the average number by 147. Scarlatina is the most fatal disease in the zymotic class; it caused 100 deaths, 94 of which wore those of children. Six deaths from this disnse occurred in the sub-district of St John, Westminster,:and five in the sub-district of St. Peter, Walworth. Nine deaths were caused by diphtheria. Typhus was fatal to 79 persons. Smallpox exhibits a low mortality; only five deaths from this disease were recorded, the corrected average number being 13 ; 38 children died from measles, and 27 from whooping cough. Bronchitis was fatal in 105 cases, 119 persons died from pneumonia, 139 from phthisis, and 33 from other diseases of the respiratory organs. Diseases of the heart caused 55 deaths ; 142 persons died from diseases of the brain and narvous system ; four deaths from delirium tremens were registered, and one death was occasioned by intemperance. Thirty-five deaths occurred from accidents. Seven per sons were killed by vehicles in the streets. Two children and two adults wero burnt, Five persons were suffocated, and four persons drowned. A labourer, aged 61 years, died in the workhouse, White chapel, from suffocation, caused by a piece of beef lodging in the windpipe. A painter, aged 29, committed suicide by taking nitric acid. Four nonagenarians died during the week. Last week the births of 997 boys and 957 girls, in all 1,984 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor responding weeks of the years 1854.63 the average number was 1,895. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.315 in, The barometri cal reading was 29.92 in at the beginning of the week, and decreased to 28.71 in on Thursday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 53.1 deg, which is 4.0 deg above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 76.2 deg on Wednesday. The lowest night temperature was 42.6 deg on Friday. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 24.6 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 7.2 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 77, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.55 in. The general direction of the wind was SW and SSE. The births* registered in Dublin during the week ending Oct. 23 were 161, and the deaths were 78, in a population of 254,808 (in 1861), spread over an area of 3,808 statute acres. The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr Glatter, were 267 in the week ending Oct. 16, when the mean tempera ture was 47 5 deg, that at Greonwich hiving been 50.3 deg. * This return is supplied by the Registrar-General of Ireland. A deputation from the firm of Chubb and Fry, B.istol, introduced by Mr Berkeley, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, on the subject of their invention for conemunication on railways. LORD PETERBOROUGH AND THE MILLER'S AUGHTER.—Like many other men of original genius, he appears, notwithstanding his mi:itary proclivities, to have held the gewgaw glories of the world very cheap. High fashionable society wearied and disgusted him. He was in the habit of taking long walks into the country, and upon one occasion met with a remarkably pretty girl, with whom he was much struck. She was the daughter of a miller, one James Smithers, and a modest worthy girl. On the following day Lord Peterborough, giving the name of Copp, and attired in homely fashion, presented himself at the mill, obtained an interview with James Smithers, and offered a large sum—the amount is not specified—to bo taught the art and mystery of the miller's craft, making no doubt some plausible excuse for the request, which was complied with, and Chas, Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, under the name of Richard Copp, positively worked in a mill near the village of Wheatstone, for several weeks, in the hope of ingratiating himself with Jane Smithers. He did not succeed. " Pretty Jane" was engaged privately to the son of a neighbouring farmer, and one fine morning it was discovered that she had secretly married a week previously I The Earl was fiercely wroth, and in his rage revealed his rank. One can hardly suppose that John Bunt, the successful rival, and husband of " pretty Jane," would have appropriated the miller's daughter had the Earl tempted her with a coronet. Ae it was, he had not only lost his love and the money premium paid to the miller, but got himself laughed at, sung in bal lads, and altogether made to cut a very ridiculous figure.— Ecccatrie Personages, by William Russell, LL.D. ROYAL GRATITUDE.—The Nord Zeitung of Hanover publishes the following anecdote on the occasion of the anniversary of the battle of Leipsic :-- "After that famous engagement Frederick Augustus, King ' of Saxony, who had been one of Napoleon's most devoted adherents, was made prisoner and taken to Berlin. At the DeMlO time the wholo financial administration of Saxony fell into the hands of the conquerors. Under these circum stances, M.B„ a Saxon superintendent of finance, who was devotedly attached to the Royal house of Saxony, thought it would be an act of patriotism on his part to secrete for the King as much as possible of the funds in hie hands, Ho accordingly abstracted several millions of thalers, and in the confusion which then prevailed the Austro-Prussian administrators never missed the money, When the King was restored to his throne, M. B. solicited an audience to inform his Majesty of the existence of this sum ; but as, according to the etiquette of the Saxon Court, he was not of a rank sufficiently high to claim that honour, one of the Ministers, M. de Z eschwitz, was charged to re ceive his communication. M. B. then informed the Mini ster how ho had managed to secure the money and where ho had concealed it. The Minister expressed his satisfaction, and at once communicated the fact to the King. M. B. has done exceedingly well,' said Frederick Augustus, ' but how shall we escape the obligation of rewarding him for this ser vice?' The Minister promptly replied, ' Sire, we will give him a reprimand.' M. B. accordingly received a letter ac• knowledging his good intentions and accepting the money. Ho was, however, told that he had acted very rashly, but that the King was graciously pleased to overlook his fault and pardon him. M. B. was so chagrined by this reprimand that he died in less than a year afterwards." THE ANTIQUITY OF THE HOTTENTOTS.— A remarkable ethnological problem is presented by the appearance of a single race in the southern province of Africa, entirely different from the South African family, both in physique and in language—a race of copper colour and low development amid dark races of noble physical structure, and separated from them both by mental peculiarities, and by a language presenting features ex hibited in no other tongue. This poople—the Hottentots —are supposed to be the oldest people on the South African continent, and among the evidences of this is the fact that the rivers, even in the Bechuana territory, bear Hottentot names. Though found principally on the southern point of the promontory of Africa, various fragments of their tribes are met with tar in the interior, even north of Lake Ngami, as if the race had been gradually pressed down from the north by more powerful tribes. It is an instance of the vitality of race, that the Bakalahari, the poorest of the Bechuana tribes, living side by side with the Bushmen, the most degraded of the Hottentots, under precisely the same circumstances, are as different from them as they ever were ; the former gladly raising, wherever possible, a few pumpkins, or keeping a few goats, and the latter scorn ing any culture of the ground or care of cattle, and pre ferring the wild life and the poor game or vermin which the desert furnishes. The Hottentot peoples have been gradually disappearing before the attack of civilisation. In the beginning of the last century, a number of tribes were settled on the south-east coast, between the Cape and the river Kai, Some of these have been entirely exter minated ; others have become scattered servants of the colonists, or have entered the Hottentot regiment in the colonial army ; while a considerable body of emigrants have settled themselves on the Winter Mountain, near the Kat River. The whole number is not thought to exceed 20,000.-7 he Races of the Cld World, by C. L. Bruce. FILET IMM EN SE CATCH OF HERRIN G S.— Never in the memory of the oldest fisherman has there been such a prodigious quantity of herrings caught as on last Monday and Tuesday night. One Filey boat ar rived on Thursday morning with 13 lasts, and the other 26 belonging to the place varied from 12 to 6 lasts each. It is computed that at Scarborough and Filey alone not less than 70 boats contained on an average eight lasts each, and 10,000 being a last, the total of herrings delivered in these two places would exceed five millions. Taking an average of £7 per last, the sum realised would be nearly £4,000. A barbarous murder of four childen by their father has just been committed at Port Neuf (Ain). A small farmer named Goy had lately been in a gloomy state of mind owing to domestic troubles and an accusation of robbery which weighed over him. Three days back, during the absence, he first strangled with a cord two of his chil dren, ono aged 20 mouths and the other four years, and then placed them in bed, covering them over with a sheet. lie next took the two others, aged seven and nine, to the river Ain, and wading into the water drowned them both. The crime completed, he went home, changed his wet clothes, and absconded, No traces have been obtained of him. NARROW ESCAPE.-0a Friday evening a little girl named Higgins, daughter of a tailor residing at Ashton-under-Lyne, felt into the canal between Hyde and Ashton. Harrison, a young man employed (as a labourer on the public vrorkr, near the place hoard the scream of the girl's littlo brother, who was with her, and ran to the spot. Throwing off pert of his clothing as he was going, he im mediately jumped into the canal and swe.m to her resew. The place where the girl fell in is very deep, and she had gone down a third time, when he dived and brought her to the surface. The child was tak€n to the Waggon and Horses Inn and restored to consciousness, and sent Lome next day. Harrison was loud'y cheered by the spectators. —Manchester Courier. SECOND EDITIO SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPAIN. MADRID, Oct. 25.—The Noticias states that Peru having refused to give explanations, diplomatic relations between Spain and that country are sue.. pended. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES-THIS DAY. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES. Rattler Oberon Wangle Eye Nine ran. £5O PLATE. liippolyta .. WESTMINSTER. UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COIN AT RAILWAY REPRESII MENT ROODIEL—Lavina Sullevan, a young woman, was placed at the bar charged with endeavouring to utter a spurious five-shilling piece at Mr Henry Fisher's, the rail way refreshment rooms, Pimlico. Ellen Sherborne, barmaid at the London, Chatham, and Dover Terminus said that last evening the prisoner came to the bar and asked for a glass of ginger brandy, on pay ment for which she tendered a counterfeit five- shilling-piece. Witness immediately saw it was bad and told prisoner that sho could not give change. Sho afterwards told her that it was not a good one, upon which prisoner said that she was not aware of it. She then entered into a long statement of having had the money given her by a gentleman, near the station, but subsequently materially altered the nature of her statement. Witness sent for the superintendent, and the prisoner was given into custody. Prisoner said she was in great distress last evening when she met a gentleman with whom she had been on terms of intimacy. who gave her five shillings, telling her he was going to Brighton, and when he returned, - which would be this (Wednesday) evening, he would perhaps give her another. She did not know where the gentleman was to be found. Mr Fisher's barmaid said that there had been several attempts made of late to pass bad monoy at the railway refreshment rooms. There had been no less than three counterfeit pieces presented to her this week, but fortu nately she had detected them immediately. Mr Arnold remanded the prisoner until Monday, offering to accept bail for her appearance, if she could get it. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Oct. 26.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; moderato breczo and fine weather, but rather cloudy. r WITSMOUTII, Oct. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her Mejesty's ship Geyser, from Plymouth. Sailed—Plover, for Bat badoes. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 25.—Wind S .E . London for d—HorMel net, from London for Sydney—London, om bourne. 13R1sToL, Oct. 25.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Juno, for St John's, Newfoundland. BRIXIIAM, Oct. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Refuge, from Nassau. DARTMOUTH, Oct. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Rosa Bonheur, from Cephalonia, SIV ANSEA, Oct. 25.—Wind S,E.—Sailed—St Holier, for Sierra Leone. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 25.—Furot and Providence, both from Gravolines—Weidenghelin, from Calcutta—Anne Catha rine, from Leghorn. Sailed, Oct. 26—Corcyra, steamer, for Malta and Alex andria—Gustav Maria, for Buenos Ayres. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed, Oct. 25,—Sovrano, for Genoa—Magionette, for Malaga—Napier, for Auckland, all from London—COn stance Amelia (bark), from Sunderland, for Carthagona. Authored—Uity of Bombay, from Calcutta, for London. 55 3 GLASGOW STAKES. Olmar Den Basilio SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOWS. Koenig SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOPS. Rubini , 1 2 Washington SUBSCRIPTION PLATE. 9 .811 1 Eltham 2 Yarra Yarra Ten ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. _ _ Connection Merry Harp Eight ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SON'S. Gownsman .. 1 Antidote Five ran. MATCHES. Birch Broom beat Rapid Rhone. Catalogue beat Money Spinner. Jupiter beat Foxholes. Brahma beat Sister to A.scham. Lady Valentine beat Arkansas. Cadeau beat Zora. Prosperity beat Nebula. Mr Henry Buller, 11, King's Bench.walk, has been appointed recorder of Poole, in room of Mr Jamcs Stephen, resigned. Viscount des Meloizes Fresnoy, the new French Minister to the Court of Bavaria, has arrived at Munich to occupy his post. The Mexican schooner Angela, which has just arrived at Havre, came in with one of her crew in irons, for the murder of the second mate by stabbing, while off the Az3reF. The captain, in attempting to protect the officer, received a wound in the breast, and another in the hand, by which he has lost a joint of his forefinger. A fatal accident occurred in the Rue de Lille, at Montpellier, two days back. The walls of an unfinished house, belonging to a M. Vasserot-Chaffrcy, suddenly 101 in and buried a mason under the ruins. Immediate steps were taken for rescuing the unfortunate man, but as the remaining walls were in a very dangerous state the opera tion was likely to occupy too much time to leave any hope of finding him alive. A TORNADO.—Another of those terrible tornadoes from which Illinois is noted has lately passed over a portion of the State, sweeping all before it. A correspon dent, who writes from Mattoon, states that the tornado was heralded by a dense black cloud rising rapidly in the west, and rushing with fearful velocity over the prairie, accom , panied by discharges of electricity so intense that they shook the earth like an earthquake. It struck the Central Rail road at Mattoon, unroofing and blowing down buildings and carrying away every moveable thing in its path. Some of the cars were smashed to splinters, and one was carried half a mile away. Fortunately no lives were lost in that vicinity. ican paper. AMERICAN ELECTIONEERING AMENITIES.—The New York Tribune, while it occupies half its space with abuse of Gen, M'Clellan, complains that the adherents of that candid Ate vilify Mr Lincoln. It asks—" What aro we to say of the patriotism of men who, in this hour of the nation's peril, bestow upon its constitutional head the fol lowing epithets : Filthy storyteller, despot, big Secessionist, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, robber, swindler, tyrant, fiend, butcher, land pirate, Bsc." This is tolerably well to begin with. A case of self•destruction, singular at least as to its cause, occurred in the suburbs of Paris the day before yesterday. The unfortunate suicide was a stone digger, named Ferdinand P--, aged 24, a naiive of Lyons, who was afflicted with what:medical men call bulzus, or insatiable hunger. His earnings being altogether insufficient to satisfy his enormous appetite, though he ate scarcely anything bat bread, his fellow-workmen used to contri bute towards his support ; but, wearied with thus bur dening his friends. and worn out by his sufferings from the presence of lonia, which aggravated his hunger, he at lest came to the desperate resolution of hanging him self, and succeeded in effecting his purpose. The annals of medicine reeords many instances of this disease, both in ancient and modern times, but the most remarkable case of late years was that of a woman named Anne Denise, who died in Paris only a few years since. This unfortunate person was afflicted with bulimy from her infancy, and while still a young girl used to devour as much as ten pounds of bread daily. Though not in indigent circum• stances, she was twice arrested for stealing bread to satisfy her hunger. She was at length admitted int) the Salpetriere, and p'aced under the treatment of Drs. Esquirol and Amussat, but to no purpose, for she left the Salpetriere as voracious as ever. Her bun. get varied its intensity ; at ordinary times she could manage with 121bs. of bread per day for three or four months of the year she would eat from 201bs. to 241b5.; and for 10 consecutive years her appetite was greatly aggravated in spring. On one occasion, when she had thought of keeping Good Friday as a fast-day, she ate more than 30Ibs. of food in 24 hours. As she advanced in years her appetite became depraved, and she took a liking to grass and flowers, espe cially buutter-cups, of which she would eat an immes.nse quantity. To relieve the colics caused by this unnatural food she used to drink brandy, of which she became very fond, :and at last died a few hours after taking a whole litre at once. When on her death-bed and unable to take food, she begged her sister to come and eat near her, and her last words were :—" Since it pleases God that I shall eat no more, let me at last have the pleasure of seeing you eat." It is a remarkable fact that on a post mortem exa mination her stomach was found to be exceedingly small, while her liver was unusually large, and all her other viscera quite sound and of normal size. EITRAORDINARY ROBBERY AND DISCOVERY OF £loo.—On Friday, at the Preston sessions, a man named Joshua Bond, who for years has occupied a respectable po sition at Fleetwood, was charged with stealing two £5O Bank of England notes belonging to the Now Fylde Timber Company. The circumstances of the case were of a very singular character. It appeared from the evidence that on 1 the 6th of October, 1860, a man named John Walkden, re siding at a place called Church, in East Lancashire, paid two £5O Bank of England notes to a young man named Richard Mayor, in the employ of the New Fylde Timber Company at Fleetwood. Mayor received the money in the presence of the prisoner Bond, who advised him to put it in his pocket book. In the evening Mayor, whilst making up his accounts, for the purpose of handing over his cash to the company, missed the two £5O notes, and as he could give no account of them, suspicion naturally fell upon his honesty. He was apprehended, placed in the lock-up at Kirkham, and afterwards brought before the magistrates at Blackpool. Bond was one of the witnesses who gave evidence against him —but nothing verypositive could be elicited, and eventually Mayor was discharged. But he took the matter deeply to heart. The public seemed to point to him as being the guilty party; but he vas conscious of his innocence, and the fact that others could not feel the same so preyed upon his mind that his health gradually gave way, and from a strong, stalwart young man ho became a paralysed, bed-ridden in valid. About two months ago a new phase in the case tran spired. A little boy, whilst playing in a yard connected with the premises of the New Flyde Timber Company at Fleetwood, found a pocketbook. On examining it he shouted ant " Notes!" Another boy then came up, and afterwards an official cf the company, who was passing, took charge of the book, opened it, and at once saw that its contents were two £5O Bank of England notes, and several settled bills, sec., which had been made out to Bond who at that time was officiating as the company's salesman. Suspicion then fell upon Bond, and ho was apprehended. On being charged with stealing the notes, he made a star ement to the effect that ho lost his pocketbook a few months be fore ; that the book which had been found was Ilea ; but that when he lost it there were no notes in it, and that some one must have put those found in it. Evidence was given showing that the notes found in the pocket-book were tbe same as those paid over to Mayor by Walkden ; that aft,sr they were paid Mayor placed them in a bag, that he weer then requested by Bond to take some consignment notes to an cffice in Fleetwood ; that both he and Bond went out of the company's office at the same time; that Mayor w as i absent about five minutes and missed the notes, named ; that Bond as well as Mayor had a key which w° 1 ; e 11 . (1 0 open the office door and give access to the apartment the each bag containing the notes were defence, it was contended by there was no evidence to show committed by Bond ; that he was no . and had never been ,uspec always borne a good character. p placed. F For th et as previous_ y_ prisoner's counsel that the the robbery had been that t t seen to take the money The prisoner was acquitted ted of doing so, and that ho had all ill all all all all 100 (100 100 2 1' 100 IN